Psychological Warfare
The legacy of the science of coercion continues into the present day, resulting in “media wars” waged with psychological warfare becoming more blatant...
The legacy of the science of coercion continues into the present day, resulting in “media wars” waged with psychological warfare becoming more blatant...
On Wednesday, U.S. congressional negotiators approved $160 million to combat what they deem foreign propaganda and the alleged Russian campaign to spread “fake news.”
And yes, the list is as ridiculous as that sounds.
"Everyone I Don't Like is a Russian Hacker"
Today, the invisible government has never been more powerful and less understood.
George Bush’s press spokesman once called the media “complicit enablers”.
Sageman says that the shortcomings of CVE models reflect a misapprehension of what drives political violence.
For this edition of Now Age Conversations, I speak with Joshua Frank, Managing Editor at Counterpunch. We talk about the insidious “fake left” media sources, while progressive in orientation, steer readers toward the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton. The Now Age Press Counterpunch Media of the Day August 23, 2016 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYcDpistznQ?enablejsapi=1&wmode=opaque] In addition to his role More
In addition to standard TV advertising and flyovers at the Super Bowl, the U.S. military spends tens of millions of dollars each year on live events that function half as recruitment pitches and half as visceral plugs for its spectacular high-tech weaponry.
Capitalist values are also antithetical to democratic ones. Like Christian ethics, the principles of republican government require us to consider the interests of others. Capitalism, which entails the single-minded pursuit of profit, would have us believe that it’s every man for himself.
Whatever one’s position on how to resolve the conflict, it is uncontroversial that Israel could not continue occupying Palestinian territory without U.S. diplomatic, military, and economic support, and it’s unlikely that support could continue without the backing—or, at least, acquiescence—of the U.S. public.
In fascism the politically disempowered and disengaged, ignored and reviled by the establishment, discover a voice and a sense of empowerment.